February 26, 2017 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Have You Ever…

God is always trying to get my attention, but I get busy—well, I think I am busy doing God’s will. I have often said to God, “I am too busy for this; (or) I do not have time for this!” I am working on getting together with God—you know, like a ‘hand-in-hand’ type of relationship.

God keeps saying to me, “Come-on Steve” or I am saying to Him, “Come-on God!” Nevertheless, He loves me and I likewise. The way He connects with me is to catch me off-guard. He does this often—it is His way of keeping me humble and me allowing Him to be Lord of my life. Needless to say, humility is not one of my strong points.

The Holy Spirit has been reaching out to me, talking to me about humility. He has been doing this in such a way that every Scripture I read or situation I find myself in, the Spirit says to me “Got humility?” He causes me to see or understand things about humility that challenges who I am and how I do things.

The other day, the Spirit was ‘driving me’ through some verses in the Bible—pushing me to read this verse then to jump to another verse. He had something to say to me, but I just wanted to get on to my next task.

Acts 8:33, “ In His (Jesus) humiliation, His judgment was taken away.” But I read this verse as saying, “In his humility, his judgment was removed.” I cannot tell you how I read this as such. I did not realize the misreading till that evening when I read it again and said to myself, “God, what are you trying to say to me?”

God knows how to get my ‘intellectual attention’ but it come at a cost to me—the Holy Spirit knows how to make me foolish and to humble me at the same time. The Spirit says to me, “You are not so smart after all, are you Steve?”

Anyhow, I like it when God speaks a truth to me but does it in such a way to humble me and yet at the same time, to be dependent on Him. Have you ever felt like this? Have you ever been ‘humbled through a mistake’ and ‘learned a truth through ignorance’?

Making a long story short, as I said, God had been talking to me about ‘humility’ for about two weeks, but wanted to make a point in such a way as to drive home what He wants me to become. I know now that only in true humility will God’s judgment on my life be dispelled. I can confirm this through many Scriptures and examples/stories in the Bible. If I would ask anything from God, knowing that He would only give me one request—it is ‘humility’ not faith, not anointing, not possessions. The ‘riches in Christ’ is found only in the humility of His grace (Eph 3:8).

Many things we now have or will have in Christ are given to us by the Holy Spirit, but they will not be needed in heaven. However, humility will always be needed and required—humility is knowing that God is everything and I am not worthy to be chosen by God. I can only say, ‘Give me humility or give me death (judgment).” Yes, I want to say with Christ, “He (Jesus) found Himself in the form of a man and humbled Himself, so He could do God’s will.” Our self-esteem is discovered in humility alone; it was Jesus who had perfect and complete fulfilling of His self-esteem. Jesus is my example of fulfillment, self-esteem and humility…the grace of God in me.

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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